I try to guide them aright--I try to keep them from all improper influences--but rank weeds continually spring up with the flowers I have planted.
How shall I extirpate these, without injuring the others ?" How many a young mother thus thinks and feels.

It is indeed a great responsibility that rests upon her.

With the most constant and careful attention, she will find the task of keeping out the weeds a hard one; but let her not become weary or discouraged.

The enemy is ever seeking to sow tares amid her wheat, and he will do it if she sleep at her post.

Constant care, good precept, and, above all, good example, will do much.